Originally Posted by
Louisa Bannon
Civil cases have costs and many average persons cannot even contemplate such costs. Even penalties are possible, or having to pay the costs of one's opponents. All kinds of political nonsense happens in civil court.
Again, you completely ignore costs. Let's say I make enemies with some editorial writer in the employ of the New York Times. They can trash me with impunity and I as a private citizen have no ability to retaliate in kind. They can write column after column utterly destroying my reputation with the public and I have nothing I could do in return as I am not a publisher nor a writer for an internationally known and distributed newspaper. Some fucking blog somewhere cannot compete with the likes of the New York Times.